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is everything you love foreign or are you foreign to everything you love?
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En 50 poèmes, Warsan Shire nous dit tout de la violence qui pousse à quitter son pays, de celle que le pays d’accueil réserve aux exilé·es, et de celle de vivre dans un corps de femme. Autre force de sa poésie : la façon lumineuse dont elle parle de la famille et d'héritage culturel. Je suis ravie d'avoir découvert l'écriture de cette poétesse dans cette très belle édition bilingue.
4.5 stars: heartbreaking but beautiful. I am very new to poetry, so had to read a lot of deep dives online about this collection, to help with fully understanding the meanings of each poem. This anthology has taught me a lot and I felt so moved. Many of the poems made me emotional and it’s definitely something I will go back to again and again. Warsan Shire is a beautiful writer.
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An astonishing debut collection of poetry from Warsan Shire. Tender, violent, intimate poems about the refugee experience and growing up as a woman in a culture and society that doesn't value women and black women in particular. These are poems of things that are hidden and things that shouldn't happen but do. The word gorgeous seems wrong, because they deal with such terrible things, but they are gorgeous. Things of beauty made from things of violence.
A bit hard to read electronically, I would've done better with a hard copy so I knew to look in the glossary for some of the unknown phrases. However, plenty of moments in this book of brief poetry were powerful and touched on painful but real topics that women all over the world have at least heard about if not experienced it.